革命、修正和补充——评温特的《国际政治的社会理论》及其建构主义学说

Alexander Wendt's Constructivism

亚历山大·温特的建构主义学说从观念结构的变化解释国际政治的变革 ,提供了一种比较新的国际政治分析视角。它给二战以来一直是“主导范式”的现实主义以很大的冲击 ,具有革命性。但是温特的建构主义没有完全否定现实主义 ,它同现实主义有不少相近之处 ,也对现实主义的基本观点作了一些修正和补充。温特的建构主义与主流理论趋同并不是完全不可能的。

Alexander Wendt has offered a new perspective for analyzing the change of international politics by focusing on the distribution of ideas, which is quite different from that of realism, especially neorealism. His constructivism poses a great challenge to the dominant paradigm, namely realism. In this sense , Wendt's theory is radical. His theory does not deny but revises the core concepts of realism. To some extent, it is a supplement to realism. The convergence of Wendt's constructivism and realism, therefore, is not impossible in the future.